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Life without theory: biography as an exemplar of philosophical understanding
, 2007 This article discusses recent attempts to provide the genre of biography with a philosophical, theoretical foundation and attempts to show that such efforts are fundamentally misguided.
Monk, Ray
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Usar la filosofía de Wittgenstein para eliminar conceptos erróneos en la práctica de la danza. Un enfoque cuádruple [PDF]
, 2019 A fourfold use of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy in order to tackle fundamental conceptual misconceptions in the domain of dance practice is proposed: the extension to dance of the insights of his remarks on other arts, the application to dance ...
Carmona Escalera, Carla
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Wittgenstein, normativity and the ‘space of reasons’
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 195-211, April 2026.Abstract Wittgenstein's naturalism illuminates our ordinary normative practices of giving and asking for reasons and also related ‘philosophical’ conceptions of knowledge inspired by, for example, Sellars's image of the ‘space of reasons’. Some propose that the relevant naturalism motivates scepticism about the ‘space of reasons’ insofar as it ...
Benedict Smith
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the primacy of use over naming [PDF]
, 2019 In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein proposed the notion of meaning that accounts for the large variety of contexts in which we apply the term “meaning”.
Sahu, Alok
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Moral certainty and the wrongness of killing: A non‐propositional view
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 170-194, April 2026.Abstract In 2008 I published a paper making the case that Wittgenstein's On Certainty reflections can be fruitfully extended to cast light on the foundations of our moral lives and practices. My primary example was that the wrongness of killing is a basic moral certainty.
Nigel Pleasants
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Comparative Population Studies, 2015 Reliable estimates for differences in life expectancy (LE) by socio-economic position (SEP), that can be assessed in an international context and are comprehensive in terms of considering different SEP dimensions, are missing for the German population so
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Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria, 2016 Generally, Roma people are viewed as being very different from those in mainstream society. The aim of this article is twofold. First, it explores these differences and attempts to make sense of the social practices of the Roma.
Elias HEMELSOET, Paul SMEYERS
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The problem of free will is child's play
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 147-154, April 2026.Abstract I argue that the essence of ‘free will’ is control, the ability to do otherwise and that this ability is an acquired skill: We can and do see people acquire it, as for example small children learn to play and to do all the other things that human agents characteristically do.
Sophie‐Grace Chappell
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Assertion as a Language-Game: the Role of Linguistic Agency in Social-Epistemic Agency [PDF]
, 2002 Wittgenstein, in contrast with a number of recent epistemologists (e.g., Audi 1998, 130-48; Fricker 1994), held that hearing another person assert that p may itself constitute sufficient reason for one to believe that p — without one"s needing to have ...
Shieber, Joseph
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Deconstructing Theory, Engaging Practice
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article revisits longstanding differences between modern and postmodern theory within systemic and family therapy and discusses its implications for practice. Drawing on Derrida's understanding of deconstruction as an ethical relation, it proposes a hospitable stance that holds theory lightly and irreverently, opening practice to multiple
Glenn Larner
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